In a one hour drive on a sunny day, an escape over the border brought me to Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. It’s a scenic drive that passes through some tiny towns before leaving Missouri. While I made my way south, under the ground thousands of gallons of water rush along through an underground cave system, from […]
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Minnesnowta It was a past due/over due trip. I have been hearing stories of this fabled family for my entire relationship with my boyfriend. I have been in speakerphone conversations with them. My excuses ran far short of their patience and invitations. Once the weather hit “steady” fifties and sixties in the daytime, we began
ASB Bridge Christopher S. Bond Bridge Buck O’Neil Bridge This was my second trip to the storied metropolis, since my move to Missouri. It was hard not to return to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, but this trip had other offerings. As we meandered through the grid of downtown, I saw so many places I
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Gratitude. I should be in a constant state of gratitude for my new life in the country, but I’m not always there. I’m more of a brat than I want to admit. I am still making adjustments; some services are slower than I’d like or they’re limited. No store in town has tahini paste, marjoram,
Today I walked/hiked down a snowy hillside, baked an elderberry crisp and pulled thorns from a dog. This is an improvement over last year when I was administering a standardized test and commuting home through heavy South Florida traffic. How? God. While I dreamed for years of moving to the countryside, I felt that taking